Bug 441616
| Summary: | Kernel panic on 2.6.24.3-50.fc8 and 2.6.24.4-60.fc8 on VMWare machine. | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | RevRagnarok <fedora> |
| Component: | mkinitrd | Assignee: | Peter Jones <pjones> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 8 | CC: | dcantrell, wtogami |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2009-01-09 06:21:23 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
RevRagnarok
2008-04-09 02:23:25 UTC
Is the initrd's init script loading the BT driver? See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelCommonProblems for how to examine the initrd contents. I cannot tell offhand, but I am seeing a big problem! I checked the initrd files for: initrd-2.6.24.3-34.fc8.img initrd-2.6.24.3-50.fc8.img initrd-2.6.24.4-64.fc8.img It looks like after 34, the "init" file has been corrupted!? They both have a bunch of nulls at the beginning instead of "#!/bin/nash" and all the other setups. rpm -qa | grep kernel | xargs rpm -V says nothing rpm -qa | grep kernel | xargs rpm -v -V | grep initrd also has nothing Very odd. Any ideas??? You could try booting the working kernel and rebuilding the initrds for the newer ones. (but make backups first) I tried that, no luck. If I try to use the older initrd on the newer kernel, the keys don't match so it won't load kernel modules. I tried to re-build the initrd by copying the /etc/init script from the working copy. I got the same error about it not finding init (and again, it didn't load the BusLogic modules). However, this doesn't explain the NULLs at the beginning of the "init" in two initrd files that rpm thinks is fine. (In reply to comment #4) > I tried that, no luck. If I try to use the older initrd on the newer kernel, the > keys don't match so it won't load kernel modules. You need to tell mkinitrd which kernel you are building the initrd for. I was able to get mkinitrd to work. However, I would like to understand why (a) rpm didn't complain about the file, (b) why when I rebuilt it by hand it didn't work, and (c) what happened to make me need to run it manually for every new kernel... rpm can't verify the initrd file because it gets custom-built for each installation. Newest update (2.6.24.5-85.fc8) still fails. Again, a manual "mkinitrd" run solved the issue, but to do that I need a previous kernel that runs and is still installed. I think I have found the issue. It was with Zerotools (1) which zeros out files when they are unlinked, a very useful feature when working with virtual machines. On a whim yesterday, I reverted back to the previous kernel and then erased the RPMs for the newest. I removed the Zerotools yum wrapper and did "yum upgrade". The new kernel booted fine. It looks like either yum or mkinitrd is doing something odd with the disk I/O, possibly unlinking the file and then assuming it is still valid (2). If that's the case, this could be a problem on other file systems where you cannot assume data is retained after unlink. However, I looked through the mkinitrd script and the last 15-20 lines seem to be where that action is and it looks fine by me. So I'm leaving it up to the powers-that-be to decide if this really is a mkinitrd bug or not. (1) http://www.koltsoff.com/pub/zerotools/ (2) http://www.koltsoff.com/pub/zerotools/#toc17 "Problem Cases" This message is a reminder that Fedora 8 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 8. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '8'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 8's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 8 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |